report. let s look at it. then we can revisit that s what the speaker so brian, didn t republicans have a similar moment? where you had the old guard or seasoned guard, you know, and the new guard. and there was some real difficulties of how do we see things? how do we reach the same objectives? so do republicans look at this and say we ve been there, we ve done that, we re in the midst of that ourselves to some extent. how do they use this to their advantage? pelosi can look at the playbook that speaker ryan and speaker boehner had to play. we had spent last eight years hearing how they couldn t corral the extremes of their caucus and it wasn t, you know, a unified position within the caucus. guess what, the democrats have that problem now. guess what, it s the same thing. the most extreme voices are the ones that are getting the media play here. a way of getting things done? yes.
well, what i heard him say is they re mainly democrats, these federal workers. people say there s no evidence for that. if you just look at the vote returns in northern virginia and d.c., they are overwhelmingly democrat. what he s saying is true. it s not a good reason to continue the shutdown or not pay federal workers. he s not saying it without evidence. he has made it very clear what he wants. democrats aren t compromising either. but only trump is being blamed for not compromising. he is set. he ran on this. he said he s going to get it done. democrats need to come to him with a deal. they don t care about seeing it end either. didn t we hear from democrats pelosi and schumer when they had their meeting, they said money for border security, yes. no money for the wall. national pelosi shortly after he swearing in. she said no money for the wall. so then, theron, where are democrats willing to compromise because negotiations means each side has to give a little.
tend to be low. they look at the institution as a whole and it seems to be a lot of bickering. if you look at the approval ratings of the congress people in their districts they tend to be pretty good which is why they get re-elected. i agree with congressman frost that there needs to be leadership. and the house is in some disarray, but nancy pelosi came up with the idea of having this bill, this plan b that john boehner put on the floor. she said taxes should no the be increased on people who make up to a million dollars and small business owners who make up to a million dollars. and charles schumer in the senate has been pushing this. there have been prominent democrats pushing this plan. you know what is surprising? you know why the congressional approval ratings are so low? national pelosi voted against john boehner s bill or said she wouldn t uh port it, and it was wouldn t uh sport it, and it was her idea. this is what the american people are tired of as we head to the cliff.